CRUD is 'wierdly hard', in that 15 years ago, it was very easy to make a windows CRUD app in Visual Basic 6. An unskilled person could build such functionality

CRUD is 'wierdly hard', in that 15 years ago, it was very easy to make a windows CRUD app in Visual Basic 6. An unskilled person could build such functionality at the same or faster speed than a quite skilled web developer. Modern web appears to have made the simple hard. Where you could once just draw a GUI (a responsive GUI), now you need to know CSS, and a simple multi column layout in CSS is something that takes a beginner days to understand. Then you need to write javascript - but not simple javascript. You 'need' to use a framework like React which takes a newbie months to 'fully' understand. What exactly do we get for all this new complexity? This is a solved problem made unsolved. There are a bunch of no-code or less-code solutions for this. Already basic ecomerce is achieved by just using these . But why not you app, front end dev reading this. Some will have good reasons, but many will not. I think you are writing it in react because you put a lot of effort into learning react and you are unable to even think of making a few low impact compromises and no-coding your next years work in a week. Why would an employee do that?